340 Description of a new species of Tibetan Antelope. [No. 173. 



The transverse wrinkles are very numerous and conspicuous, exhibiting 

 on the frontal surface a succession of large ridges and furrows : on the 

 sides of the horns they are much less developed, particularly on the 

 inner side, and they gradually diminish from the bases of the horns to 

 the tips, the last five inches being void of them. The curvature of the 

 horns describes a fine backward and outward sweep, and thence down- 

 wards and forwards, so as to complete about two-thirds of a circle, 

 when there is a second retroversion, leaving the points directed forwards 

 and outwards with an inclination backwards, as though, in old age, 

 there would be a second spiral curve. The neck is rather thin, the 

 body full, and somewhat elongate ; the limbs elevated, clean, and strong. 

 The hoofs, which are very fine, hard and black, are less deep and per- 

 pendicular than in tame sheep, and rest on longer laxer pasterns. The 

 hoofs are compressed and scooped beneath anteriorly ; broad, full, and 

 rounded posteriorly, or in the position of the frog of solid ungula. The 

 false hoofs are large, but not salient or pointed, being blunt tubercles 

 rather. All the four* feet have interdigital pores of good size, in which 

 some cerous matter is lodged. The small stag-like tail is cylindrico- 

 conic, clad beneath towards its tip, and scantily furnished with hair, 

 which seems as though it had been rubbed off. 



The pelage, or vesture, consists entirely of hair, without a trace of wool 

 beneath it. The hair is of the usual coarse, brittle, quill-like, and 

 internally w r avy character, and on the body generally is only three- 

 quarters to one inch long ; on the under- surface of the neck two and a half 

 inches, and on the limbs and head is close and fine, with not half the 

 length it has on the body. The elongation of the hair on the abdomi- 

 nal surface of the neck, extends from the throat to the chest, and is 

 distinct upon close examination, but not otherwise, for there is no ap- 

 pearance of a pendant mane. The colour on the dorsal surface of the 

 animal is saturate dull-brown ; on the flanks, entire head and neck, and 

 fronts of the limbs, the same, but mixed largely with hoary, so as to 

 create a pepper-and-salt hue almost ; on the belly, insides of the limbs, 

 margins of the buttocks, tail, and a large disc round it, rufescent-white. 

 There is no black or dark stripe down the vertex ; but the highest part 

 of the body is the darkest, and is nearly black, the colour being extended 

 in a line to the tip of the tail, so as to divide the white disc and tail in a 



* I am thus particular as to this organ, because there is much yet to be learnt about 

 it in regard to all the Ruminants: for example, the Mantjac of the Sub himalayas 

 (Cervus ratwa) has these digital pits only in the hind-feet, and the Saumer (Cervus 

 aristotelis) is devoid of them entirely, though the best books say otherwise. 1 speak by 

 virtue of old memoranda, having no specimens of these deer now to refer to ; but those I 

 examined w^re alive, and 1 think I noted carefully. 



